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Shouted to me on the street 15+ times a day during my study abroad experience in Nicaragua. I never truly understood what it meant to feel objectified until this experience.

As a white American girl living in a small town in the Dominican Republic, I’m going to have to agree with ToruKun1 and elVega on this one. I feel a hell of a lot more sexism coming from my white, male, American, ivy league-educated, nonprofit bosses than the constant catcalls coming from Dominican dudes, who are living in poverty that is directly related to my part of the world’s exploitation and oppression of theirs. You know our lives are like super f’ing easy in comparison, right? So much so that you can go study abroad, invade their lives and then complain when they act how their culture acts, wow. Even if it is objectifying (not saying it is), it isn’t your place to get offended. How bout you try to spend your time trying to genuinely and respectfully learn about culture and life and your role there instead?

STREET HARASSMENT IS OKAY UNLESS THE GUY DOING IT IS WHITE!

I feel like I just ordered a fudge volcano from TGI Fridays, except, instead of chocolate, it's made of hypocrisy. And it's almost too rich to eat.

This statement is pretty much the example of everything that bothers me about the SJW mentality. There are actually places in this world where women (and others) are still treated like garbage and it's not just focused on your self-absorbed tourist self. Someone who actually wanted justice in the world would dedicate their time to fighting actual oppression. But of course if that conflicts with your imagined idea of white cis male control of everything all the time you need to do some mental gymnastics and end up supporting terrible behavior.

Yeah, white men are actually pretty nice to women on average, especially if you compare to, say, certain fundamentalist Islamic men in the Middle East, or some of the lowest common denominator in India. But pointing out that the Western world is probably the best place on Earth to be a woman is racist, obviously. White men are the devil, all problems in other places = colonization, etc., etc.

I feel like I read an article by a woman who was raped in Haiti and during the event she didn't blame her attacker who was black but rather she was angry at the fact that the white man's oppression had driven him to rape her. Still don't understand it.

I feel a hell of a lot more sexism coming from my white, male, American, ivy league-educated, nonprofit bosses than the constant catcalls coming from Dominican dudes

you may notice that the level of sexism is being measured in feels.

also...

Even if it is objectifying (not saying it is)

LOL. shout out to all the dominican bros who this girl is gonna fuck "for the experience". if anyone in DR is reading this, you should go to wherever this girl is and just stand around for a while. eventually you'll get lucky

The term “hearing impaired” seems silly to be upset over, but when used over and over to describe you, you begin to believe that you are indeed broken instead of just different. I fight against the use of this word everyday.

But, dude. If your hearing is impaired, then what are you SUPPOSED to say?

Sounds like someone needs to go back to the protective umbrella of mom.

Yeah, like not to be a jerk, but if "hearing impaired" is used to describe someone, it's probably because their hearing actually IS broken. Being unable to hear is outside the norm, so they are in fact different, at least in that respect. Why is that so bad? Or so hard to accept?

Oh right, I forgot, everyone is perfect and has 100% equal ability in everything due to feels overload.

Actually.. that does happen, but it doesn't really surprise me since most of the women I know will order diet over regular. And waiters will also make jokes if a man orders like a diet coke and a salad if he's eating with a girl who just ordered a hamburger.